"You do that often?"

"Yeah, class is boring."

"Gosh, I'm soon going to feel at home in this school."

"Are you?"

And here they are, Ms. Smith's geometry class.

He smiles and nods. He introduces himself to the teacher.

The teacher welcomes him and tells him to find someone to sit with.

Which just so happens to be next to Dayo.

Funny how that works.

It's only been a month, there isn't a lot of new content to catch up on, and presumably Arthur wasn't idling along during this time so he should be fine. And if he's not, Dayo's actually pretty good at math.

Arthur is pretty good at math too!

Then they won't have any problems!

Their next class is AP Calc, which they apparently have together as well.

Great. Then they can walk together there. "Do you have many friends here?"

"Ehhh. I have one close friend but I'm friendly enough with everyone else. How about you, do you miss people from NY?"

"Ah, maybe a few, but my two closest friends had already moved away last year."

Sore subject, okay.

"Jessica doesn't like math very much but we'll see her at lunch."

Nod. "What sorts of things do you like?"

"Math, science, psych, econ, all the nerdy stuff. I'm terrible at languages, though."

"Oh, I don't have psych. What is it like?"

"It's fun, one of my favorite classes, most of the time. When they don't slip into Freudian stuff, anyway."

"What is the problem with Freudian stuff?"

"It's false!"

"Are they at least teaching it for... historical reasons?"

"The evidence is inconclusive."

"The joys of public education."

They have class. And later they have lunch.

And a girl strides over to their table after they've sat. "You won't believe—oh hi who are you?"

"Arthur, this is Jessica. Jessica, this is Arthur, new student."